Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum Care

Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum Care, Fourth Edition is a trusted, comprehensive, and evidence-based text that presents women’s gynecologic health from a woman-centered and holistic viewpoint. Encompassing both health promotion and management of gynecologic conditions, it provides clinicians and students with a strong foundation in gynecologic care and the knowledge necessary to apply it in clinical practice. With an emphasis on the importance of respecting the normalcy of female physiology, it is an essential reference for all women’s healthcare providers. The Fourth Edition includes three new chapters on racism and health disparities, men’s sexual and reproductive health, and preconception care, including preconception counseling and the significant risks of unintended pregnancies. Thoughtfully updated and revised, it provides additional and expanded information on abnormal uterine bleeding, uterine fibroids, treatment of pyelo, pregnancy changes and monitoring, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.